Only True Love Exists Above The Moon

The feeling of love is magical; the world is painted with pastel singing birds and blooming flowers, and the heart is full and warm as the lover inadvertently falls deeper into the realm of affection for a person he sees through a pair of blinders. While love can bring the emotions of joy, tenderness, and a sense of wholeness in one’s heart, the soul-crushing, heart-wrenching discovery that the lover does not share mutual feelings drastically shifts the perfect world of a person in love into a chaotic world of anguish. Feelings of anger, bitterness, and longing consumes the lover and leaves him in a frenzy of mixed emotions. In John Donne’s “Love’s Deity”, the complex feelings associated with unrequited love is displayed through the use of

William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love Is Not All” both attempt to define love, by telling what love is and what it is not. Shakespeare’s sonnet praises love and speaks of love in its most ideal form, while Millay’s poem begins by giving the impression that the speaker feels that love is not all, but during the unfolding of the poem we find the ironic truth that love is all. Shakespeare, on the other hand, depicts love as perfect and necessary from the beginning to the end of his poem. Although these two authors have taken two completely different approaches, both have worked to show the importance of love and to define it. However, Shakespeare is most confident of his definition of love, while Millay seems

Throughout centuries human kind has been engulfed by the constant exploration of what love is, of figuring out the definition of that ecstatic feeling inside of oneself that churns and twists human emotions in every sense. It is in accordance to an individual’s own experience that he or she will define love, thus making it a continuous mystery in its own broad spectrum of definitions. The word “love” has a unique and ardent meaning for every single individual. Though concrete definitions have emerged in history, numerous amounts of people disregard of these and feel the need to be merely satisfied with the purity of feeling and not defining. Raymond Carver’s short story What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, which continues to puzzle

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer around 1386, is a collection of tale told by pilgrims on a religious pilgrimage. Two of these tales, "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", involve different kinds of love and different love relationships. Some of the loves are based on nobility, some are forced, and some are based on mutual respect for each partner. My idea of love is one that combines aspects from each of the tales told in The Canterbury Tales.

Love. What is it? What is its purpose? The J. Geils Band says love stinks. Pat Benatar says love is a battlefield. The idea of love proliferates every aspect of our human culture. Love influences our literature, music, religion, and social lives. Love makes us do funny things, makes us feel warm and fuzzy, hurts us, brings people together, and transforms lives. Love transforms us. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. There are multiple types of love such as brotherly love and courtly love. Courtly love is an example of how love transforms a person. In the traditional definition of courtly love, the love-struck hero is on a constant struggle to reach the object of his affection. While Cervantes provides an accurate portrayal of courtly love in Don Quixote, Dante’s version in Inferno and Purgatory is a more convincing use of courtly love because his character, Dante, emerges as a transformed character through the process of trying to get to his beloved Beatrice.

Love is ever present in our lives. Turn on the television, the media is flooded with scenes from movies and shows that present a cliche image of love, such as over-the-top declarations of love and chasing lovers through the airport. For the most part, love is presented in one of two ways: steadfast and unconditional, or fickle and ever-changing. The literary works of William Shakespeare often present love from varying viewpoints. For Example, Shakespeare's comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 display love in two vastly differing viewpoints of love.

For centuries the civilized world has been dominated by the fickle notion of love. Shakespeare, the great storyteller, described love and its workings in fascination, continually pushing the boundaries of an emotion that many claimed to feel; yet widely disputed. Still, as the 21st Century reared its head, the idea of love was able to staple itself in many aspects of everyday life, particularly marriage. Marriage is an ancient custom that is practiced by a vast majority of cultures and civilizations; but it has not been until relatively recently that love and marriage have become one in the same, particularly

love” makes evident Chaucer’s skewed views of love and marriage with underlying tones of misogyny. He expresses these views throughout the work, however, the theme of love and sex is most evident in the sub-stories of The Wife of Bath and The Miller’s Tale.

The Word love is not easy to define because everyone has their own interpretation of what love is.Love is not something that can be defined or explained in opinion, but only felt or experienced,In the short story by Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love , the characters in the story are also trying to uncover the meaning behind love. During the story, the characters are all sitting together comparing their views on what love is and what love is not. Each character in the story, like many people, have different experiences of love that cause them to form their own definition of what classifies as love. Reading the story, makes me feel as if I cannot judge another individual’s opinion on what love is.One of the main characters

Although Chaucer was born a commoner, his work positions led to his affiliation with the aristocracy and as much as he was not considered nobility he transcended his previous social stature by a long mile, Chaucer thus had a vast amount of insight into the differing classes above and below him. Chaucer upholds the courtly love rules in the Knights tale as well as the Millers Tale, he uses the representation of women namely Emily and Alisoun to emphasize the transitioning of society's interactions and the refinement of human nature by use of the courtly love rules. This essay will study the way in which courtly love emerged, the basic form of human nature as represented by the peasantry in the millers tale, the nobility and their contribution to the principles as a practice of the refinement of human nature to understand the need for human

   Love is one of the most confusing emotions that one can experience. It is simple yet complicated, unconditional but demanding, overused and unique. It is hard to explain what its means to feel love, to feel loved, or to be in love, however, there are aspects of love that are easily expressed. For example, ones unquestionable affection to the one they love, or the hardships and sacrifice that is endured for loved ones, and the underlying fact that once it is experienced it is not easily dismissed. The play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller describes love in just these ways, and, most of all, as the ultimate moral value that is the eternal bond that keeps people together. One can

Love is a highly debatable concept. Is it merely a confusion of the natural functions of human brains or is it a force that extends beyond human control leaving victims naked to its influence? Are people able to choose their lovers or are the functions of love the deciding factor? To find these answers look not only into the actions of people, but absorb the insight into the human psyche that literature lends the mind from within its pages.

Although love has a universal definition, the accomplishment of authentic love in numerous societies can be interpreted diversely due to unique general and personal ideologies that can be recognized in the play The Lady’s Not for Burning by Fry and the poem “Love’s Alchemy” by Donne. The Lady’s Not for Burning was written between 1572 to 1631 by Fry and is set in the 1400s when the superstitions of witchcraft were growing in popularity, which led to the immoral prosecution of suspected women. On the other hand, the poem, “Love’s Alchemy,” is by Donne, who gravitated towards writing misogynistic poetry. In these two pieces of literature, the views of love, alchemy, and the mind operate to portray societal and/or personal ideologies; these include

    The image of love created by Chaucer in Book I of "Troilus and Criseyde" is one which elicits pity rather than admiration. Yet, the poet professes to serve and celebrate the God of Love. Is the superficially motivated but all-consuming passion sparked in Troilus meant to serve as a warning to other lovers or a model? With the presence of several narrative interjections by the poet himself suggesting a method of interpretation, clearly some emphasis is placed upon an audience's ability to learn from "The double sorwe of Troilus" (1). As a cautionary tale, though, perhaps Chaucer attempts to describe the paradoxes seemingly inseparable from the very concept of love itself, rather

What is love? Love is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness (Dictionary). But there are different types of love, and attitudes associated with it and commitment. Using William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream, this document will illustrate demonstrations with the intention of proving the aspects of love and how both genders react to it. In this piece the topics that will be covered are when two individuals fall in love, their style of loving, the prototypes of love and commitment, attitudes and behaviors associated with love, romantic love and adrenaline: